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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

Luci P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2207) interviewed by Jaša Almuli

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2207

Videotape testimony of Luci P., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1925. She recounts German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; assistance from Serbian friends; her sister's compulsory forced labor; an uncle fleeing to Priština; acquiring false papers; joining him with her family in November via Skopje; being placed on the train back to Yugoslavia; escaping with assistance from a stranger; hiding in a village with a poor, Jewish family; joining her uncle in Prizren; continuing assistance from local Serbs; arrest in 1942; an Italian officer protecting them; transfer to Kavajë; an Albanian partisan providing them with food and false papers; Italian soldiers protecting them after German invasion in 1943; hiding in an Albanian village, then in Tirana; liberation in November 1944; returning to Belgrade; and finding their home intact.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.